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"I love food in general. I do have a passion for it, and I love putting a smile on people's faces when they see what I can do with food," said 12th-grade student Jemischa Albo.

They got a special lesson on Tuesday from three world-traveled professional chefs from the Culinary Institute of America. Every year, the chefs said they take a day to teach high school students some of what they've learned over the course of their careers.

"I do it because I have a passion for education. I have a passion for learning, and these kids are the future of our industry and our country," said chef Arnym Solomon. "This is my profession, so I have a stake in trying to maintain and make sure we have some people that are going to follow us."

"It's important that they learn from chefs, such as these that are here today at CATN, because they bring a wealth of worldly knowledge," said Larry Lopez of the Culinary Institute of America.

Some of the students have spent half of their school days for several years learning the fundamentals of cooking to prepare for their futures. Many said they'll go on to culinary school after graduation. They said they're excited to learn new techniques and get advice from chefs who have successfully made a career out of it.

"I think it is a great experience to learn other perspectives of what they've gone through and their life experiences," said student Chris Bussey.

"Where they come from, what they do with food and maybe what they grew up doing -- they could teach us, and we can us it in our future when we become chefs," Albo said.

As an added bonus, the students got to eat all of the great food they created at the end of class.